1/ I remember interviews of Trump in the 1980s & he wasn’t that bad. He wasn’t someone I would’ve voted for for president but he had a reasonableness about him. He wasn’t horrifying.
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2/ He changed over the years. It was apparently Kushner who convinced him that playing the hate card would get him elected president. I tend to think if he had stayed who he was, he still might have won in 2016 & he’d probably be headed for a second term now.
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3/ For so long – and I know, we still have 40 some odd days to worry about – he was such a malignant presence that all some of us could think about was how to get him out of the WH. Now that his presidency is waning, I think of him less as a danger and more as a human tragedy.

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Replying to @marwilliamson
He's a vile criminal. Children in cages scarred for life disagree, @marwilliamson.
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I agree - that’s his presidency though. I’m just looking back over the ark of his public persona and I don’t remember it starting out that horrible. But others have pointed out that the Central Park Five was in 1989 so maybe anything better was just a sham and I didn’t see it.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
No, it's 1,507 days that you'll have to worry about.
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Yep. Could be.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
The aura of him being a ‘malignant presence’ was driven entirely by a media that hated him. Must be that he didn’t start any wars.
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No, he was and still is a malignant presence. Even now he is undermining our democracy in every way he possibly can.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Thinking of Trump as some sort of tragic figure is way to kind. I still think that he's dangerous, since he's still trying to overturn the election results and/or sow discord so that a non-insignificant number of people think that the 2020 election is illegitimate.
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Both can be true. Believe me, I think he should be held accountable to the full extent of the law. But even then he’s a tragic figure.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Are you suggesting you feel sorry for him?
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Feeling sorry for someone & feeling an impersonal compassion are different things. I totally do not feel sorry for him - and I want him held accountable - but at the same time I want to enter 2021 without the toxicity of the negativity I have felt in my heart over the last 4 yrs.
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